This led to a surge in prison spending and overcrowding so inhumane that in 2009 a panel of federal judges ordered the state to release or transfer some 40, 000 of its roughly 164, 000 inmates.
But Jesus did not say you have to be illogical or inhumane to be a person of faith.
"This is just a completely unworkable, inhumane, unthinkable proposition, to dump children on a remote island for decades to come simply because the government of the day wants to look tough on refugees in order to win the next election, " argued the Greens' Senator Sarah Hanson Young.
"It is the largest ever such operation to rescue illegal migrants travelling in inhumane conditions, " a police spokesman told the AFP news agency.
The president's call for tougher border security is part of a broader plan to overhaul a system that he has described as inhumane, with desperate foreigners risking their lives for a chance to earn U.S. wages.
Insofar as those values fail, we would all descend toward a lawless, inhumane, cutthroat society that will no longer harbor our civilization.
In 2008 workers staged a strike against inhumane conditions.
They said that they faced an inhumane regime of solitary confinement in a special "supermax" prison.
"It was not only not humane to give Sandusky a pass, but inhumane towards young men who fell prey to him, " said attorney Tom Kline, who represents Victim 5.
The liberals who deploy them mean them in their full pejorative sense: with "jihad" shorthand for a brutal war of fanaticism, "mullah" implying a religious fanatic, "Shariah" a synonym for an inhumane system of law, and so on.
"To threaten military action against a civilian aircraft that is flying under international air regulations is not only against international laws but is an inhumane action, " said Kim Ho-Nyun, a Ministry of Unification spokesman.
It was a nice try by a defense attorney to decrease inhumane treatment to aggravation.
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The prison's Independent Monitoring Board (IMB) said nearly half the inmates faced waiting to use the toilet - a situation described as "inhumane".
If the request is ruled lawful, the Secretary of State takes the final decision after considering human rights issues - such as whether the suspect could be denied a fair trial or face inhumane treatment.
After his escape, Mr. Pinchao gave a chilling account of the inhumane treatment suffered by the hostages and specifically said that Betancourt was being forced to sleep chained by her neck as punishment for having tried to escape five times.
France said it decided to undertake the rescue attempt after the terror group failed to negotiate for the hostage's release for three and a half years while holding him in inhumane conditions.
Frequently terrorists (as they've been trained to do) and their supporters such as Amnesty will cry that America is violating the Geneva Convention by holding these men in "inhumane" conditions (which has proven to be a false allegation) without charging them and so on.
It says those held under the law suffered "cruel, inhumane or degrading treatment" and cited Mahmoud Abu Rideh, a 31-year-old Palestinian refugee, who was allegedly punished for having a haircut.
He said that the 36-year-old was being kept under inhumane conditions and should at least be offered the luxury of a trial to be proven guilty or innocent of terrorism.
Since the Khomeinist power grab, the Iranian people have been paying a great price for the continuing hard-line inhumane practices and policies of the Shia clergy and their militant Revolutionary Guards Corps.
The five cases slowly came together in Strasbourg, where top human rights judges (it's worth noting that they were until recently led by a British judge) wrestled with complex questions relating to inhumane treatment.
"Civil and political rights are being severely restricted as a result of the imposition of a strict interpretation of sharia law, and systemic cruel and inhumane punishments are being implemented, " Simonovic said.
The judge told him it was a crime which was as cruel as it was "senseless and inhumane".
Levitt, who understands his career as the study of incentives, accepts that economists, and especially he, view certain issues from a cold, almost withdrawn point which other people could consider immoral or inhumane.
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They are fighting a battle on two fronts - to dispel the idea there is anything inhumane about their traditional methods of slaughter, and to defend their right to live according to their religious beliefs.
If a nation such as North Korea or Iran captured an American, they might decide to interpret inhumane treatment in their own way.
Norway, Wilkinson points out, has a far lower murder rate than the United States in spite of its far more comfortable, less inhumane prisons.
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